From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 22 17:57:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B8837B403 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA90020; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:57:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05691; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:55:50 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200107230055.KAA05691@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: Lamont Granquist Cc: "A. L. Meyers" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is "stable" "stable"? In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:27:01 -0700. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:55:49 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > you should expect to > occasionally see problems. People will break the build. People will have > insufficiently tested their code and subsystems will break. And CVS itself is not atomic, so there is always the possibility of you grabbing a version half-way through a series of related and interdependent commits. There is no obvious way of fixing this that will still scale to the sort of load that the FreeBSD CVS system has to support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message